There are special activities hosted by the Kansas Children’s Discovery Center and Paper June Bookstore too. Also, Kathleen Wilford, author of the popular middle grade novel Cabby Potts, Duchess of Dirt, will be presenting. A number of presentations and outdoor performances are aimed at little ones! Mike Ciccotello, author of Beach Toys vs School Supplies will be honored as the winner of the Bill Martin Jr Picture Book Award Winner. The Kansas Book Festival is for all ages and interests, and all events are free. In addition, the festival will feature prize-winning speculative fiction writers Kenan Orhan, author of I am My Country: And Other Stories, and John Elizabeth Stinzi, author of My Volcano.
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Other featured authors include Candice Millard, author of New York Times Bestseller River of the Gods: Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile, as well as the acclaimed poet B.H Fairchild. We invite authors, journalists, illustrators, movie makers, graphic artists, rare book sellers, and anyone else whose art or livelihood depends on books.
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This year, the headliner is Ling Ma, author of the new collection of short stories Bliss Montage, which won the 2023 National Book Critics Circle Award, plus Severance, named the Best Book of the Year by NPR as well as one of the “Books We Loved” at the New Yorker. The festival will also feature outdoor performances, a book-art exhibit, food trucks, and exhibitor tents with 35 publishers, nonprofits, and individual authors. Their presentations cover fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and children’s fiction. The 2023 Festival will bring an amazing lineup of 50 authors.
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16, 2023, the 12th annual Kansas Book Festival will take place at Washburn University, hosted by the Mabee Library. To see the full 2023 program, click here. In short, Portland Book Festival’s new iteration celebrates contemporary literature in a way that feels, well, contemporary.On Saturday, Sept. “The idea that you can have a festival of books and ideas that’s incredibly fun to be at, all distilled into downtown with a huge book fair and an entire museum, for $15 -$25 - this is something that could only happen in Portland.” “When you think of Portland’s profile, it’s a cool town with great food and wine and people who love to read and are serious about the arts,” says Proctor.
Andrew Proctor, Executive Director of Literary Arts
When you think of Portland’s profile, it’s a cool town with great food and wine and people who love to read and are serious about the arts. The festival is packed with on-stage author conversations, interviews, panels, interactive Q&A’s, pop-up readings in galleries and coffee shops, kids’ story times, live music, an expanded book fair and - in true Portland fashion - food trucks parked outside on festival day. (Other venues include the nearby Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, Powell’s City of Books, Pioneer Place, The Northwest Children’s Theater and School and Rontoms). As the festival’s rebooted primary venue, the museum provides a backdrop for art, history and culture to merge with conversation, books and ideas. This daylong event features author discussions, pop-up readings, writing workshops for. But its original incarnation, held at the expansive Oregon Convention Center through–2013, wasn’t quite the “metaphorical public square” that Literary Arts Executive Director Andrew Proctor, the festival’s new leader, had in mind.Įnter the Portland Art Museum. Produced by Literary Arts, the Portland Book Festival returns to the. When 8,500 people descended on the Portland Art Museum for the revived Portland Book Festival (formerly “Wordstock”) in 2015, the message to its new organizer, Literary Arts, was clear: Portlanders love to get their read on, and this festival - missing in action for more than two years - had not been forgotten.įounded in 2005 by local writer Larry Colton and renamed in 2018, the annual festival always featured an impressive lineup of local and national authors and a book fair.
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